Just a thought/request:
At some point in the future, it would be nice to have workouts posted by someone who specializes in LONG distance coaching with an eye on open water distances (1 mile "death sprints" to ??? miles). The workouts provided are generally excellent, but since open water distances basically start where pool distances leave off, it would be great to have something a bit more specific. This is especially true since there is a relatively small body of printed work on longer distance/open water training and coaches for LONG distances seem few and far between.
Would anyone else be interested and would this be possible?
-LBJ
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I am new to posting; so bear with me. My training for the last two years has been to prepare for a 2.5 ocean swim. For background I swam competively through college and masters till 40 retiring due to shoulder injuries; after 8 years of running and two knee operations the doctor suggested easy distance swimming; we swim 5 days a week each day a different workout but the same workout each week all on the clock; each workout has a 500 yd warmup; mondays is a straight 1 hour swim; tuesday is 2x 1,750 swim with 30 seconds rest; wednesdy is 3x 1000 starting on the nearest 30; thursday is 7x 500 with 15 seonds rest and friday is 35x 100 on 1:30, the rest interval is anywhere from 5 to 10 seconds; after two years some of th 100s are now done on 1:25 with the goal to drop them all to that interval; in the beginning we could only due 5 without a break. Over the two years our times have steadily dropped as we got in better shape. It really helps to have a swimming buddy; we have no coach but as I said we both swam competively in college.
I am new to posting; so bear with me. My training for the last two years has been to prepare for a 2.5 ocean swim. For background I swam competively through college and masters till 40 retiring due to shoulder injuries; after 8 years of running and two knee operations the doctor suggested easy distance swimming; we swim 5 days a week each day a different workout but the same workout each week all on the clock; each workout has a 500 yd warmup; mondays is a straight 1 hour swim; tuesday is 2x 1,750 swim with 30 seconds rest; wednesdy is 3x 1000 starting on the nearest 30; thursday is 7x 500 with 15 seonds rest and friday is 35x 100 on 1:30, the rest interval is anywhere from 5 to 10 seconds; after two years some of th 100s are now done on 1:25 with the goal to drop them all to that interval; in the beginning we could only due 5 without a break. Over the two years our times have steadily dropped as we got in better shape. It really helps to have a swimming buddy; we have no coach but as I said we both swam competively in college.
